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SPARANISE

Gas power plant in Campania, Italy. Approximate location 41.1783, 14.1129.

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SPARANISE is a 760 MW gas power station in Campania, Italy. It is operated by EGL Italia. Based on reported annual generation of 2,354 GWh, it can supply roughly 672,600 homes. It ranks #42 of 441 Italy power plants by installed capacity. Its measured emissions of 1,024,920 t CO₂/yr (Climate TRACE) are equivalent to about 238,909 cars driven for a year. In context, gas supplies about 47.2% of Italy's electricity; the national grid averages 285 gCO₂/kWh (48.8% low-carbon) (2025).

760MW installed capacity
2,354GWh reported / yr
672,600homes powered
1,024,920t CO₂ / yr (Climate TRACE)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1002958.

1,024,920 t CO₂/yr — in everyday terms

This facility's annual emissions are roughly equivalent to:

238,909passenger cars driven for a year
133,662homes' yearly energy use
17,082,000tree seedlings grown 10 years to absorb it

Equivalencies via US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies; emissions reported to Climate TRACE.

Reported generation trend

2015: 2,845 GWh20152016: 2,137 GWh20162017: 2,354 GWh20173k GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by EGL Italia. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This gas plant burns natural gas in a turbine — often in a combined-cycle setup — to generate electricity. It sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 41.2°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

15.5°Cannual mean temp
1,480heating degree-days (base 18°C)
566cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
49 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 8 °CJF: 8 °CFM: 10 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 18 °CMJ: 21 °CJJ: 24 °CJA: 24 °CAS: 21 °CSO: 17 °CON: 12 °CND: 9 °CD24 °C

Heating degree-days here run 40% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 34/100 — this site sits in the mid third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

A gas turbine here also runs ~0% below its ISO (15°C) rating at this annual mean (typical CCGT curve, estimate).

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #27 largest gas power plant of 64 in Italy by capacity.

Italy has 64 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 39,931 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 41.1783, 14.1129 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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